At the Japan Foundation Yangon, we have “Origami Club”, a regular monthly activity, where the people who are interested in Japanese origami and paper quilling can come and try new origami and paper folding methods.
This time, we will fold cute paper umbrella and make very sophisticated earrings by using paper quilling method. People who love to do paper craft are very much welcome to join this event held in the Japan Foundation, Yangon. Join us to know how to make nice paper earrings to wear and umbrella with easy items to give as presents to loved ones. Please register via Facebook messenger to join by dropping your name and phone number not later than 12 pm on February 21.

Origami Club
Date : 22 February, 2020
Time : 1:30 pm ~ 3:30 pm
Place : Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township.
Expected participants : 15 ppl (maximum)
Entry : free

2020 July Japanese Language Proficiency Test for Yangon, Mandalay and Bago

Application for Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) that to be held on 5th  July  2020 in Yangon, Mandalay and Bago will be conducted according to the followings.

1. Test Date
5.7.2020 (Sun)

2. Test Site
Yangon, Mandalay and Bago 

3. Application Form Issue Period for Yangon 1 and Yangon 2 
20.2.2020 (Thu) – until sold out

Submission Dates of Application Form for Yangon 1
N5 – 23.2.2020 (Sun) to 25.2.2020 (Tue)
N4 – 26.2.2020 (Wed) to 28.2.2020 (Fri)
N1, N2, N3 – 29.2.2020 (Sat) to 9.3.2020 (Mon) 

Submission Dates of Application Form for Yangon 2
N5, N4 – 29.2.2020 (Sat) to 3.3.2020 (Tue) 

Test Voucher Issue Period for Yangon 1 and Yangon 2
20.3.2020 (Fri) to 3.4.2020 (Fri)
Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Venue: MAJA Education Centre
No. 66/A, Thura Street, (9) Ward, South Okkalapa Tsp, Yangon. (Ponnami Bus Stop)
Phone: 09-962751373, 09-428613848

4. Application Form Issue Period for Mandalay
20.2.2020 (Thurs)  – until sold out

Submission Dates of Application Form 
1.3.2020 (Sun) to 6.3.2020 (Fri) 

Test Voucher Issue Period for Mandalay 
Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
(12:00 -1:00 PM will be closed for lunch) 

Venue: MAJA Office (Mandalay Branch)
1st Floor, MABA, Water Street, Block-1, Unit 6, Mingalar Mandalay, Chan Mya Thar Si Tsp, Mandalay
Phone: 09-255162533

5. Application Form Issue Period for Bago 
3.3.2020 (Tue)  – until sold out

Submission Dates of Application Form and Test Voucher Issue Period for Bago
N5, N4 -4.3.2020 (Wed) to 9.3.2020 (Mon) 

Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Venue: Bago University

6. Fees of Application Form: 2,000 MMK

7. Examination Fees: N1, N2, N3: 40,000 MMK
                                       N4, N5: 30,000 MMK

As the number of examinees have been increasing since last year, to solve the problem of lack of enough test site and to provide the better test site environment, it is sincerely requested to understand that examination fees have been increased.

How to apply

1.The candidates can buy the application form from the venue mentioned above. After filling in the necessary information, please submit it together with the copy of your NRC card (Name and Date of Birth are mentioned in English) .
If the person in charge from the Japanese Language School submits the application forms of their students on behalf of them, please submit the list of their names, Dates of Birth and level together with the copies of their NRC cards.

3. The candidates who will submit the application form in Yangon and Mandalay can only get the test voucher within the period mentioned above.

4. The candidates who will submit the application form in Bago can get the test voucher in the submission period.

5.To download 

Application Form

Test Guide

Important Notes

For candidates who do not have their NRC or have lost one , please bring one of the followings to submit. Other cards that are not mentioned below will not be accepted.
1.Driving License
2. Passport
3. Student Identity Card that has been issued by Public (Governmental) elementary school, middle school and high school   ※No Private School ID accepted .

4. Student Identity Card that has been issued by Public (Governmental) university and college  ※No Private School ID accepted .

5. Birth Certificate (for under-10-year candidates)

For detail information, please visit the Facebook page of MAJA , The Japan Foundation, Yangon  website and the Embassy of Japan in Myanmar website.

For further information for JLPT, please contact 09-962751373. 

The Japan Foundation, Yangon brings you the fifth photo exhibition of “Beauty of World Heritage in Japan” photo exhibition series. This time, as the continual exhibition of previous “Temples and Shrines” exhibition, we will exhibit as “Temples and Shrines II” which showcase invaluable historic temples and shrines. The photos include Todai-ji temple, temple of world’s biggest wooden building, two Kamo Shrines: Kyoto’s oldest shrines, Toshogu Shrine where Tokugawa Ieyasu is enshrined and many more which stand out for their cultural longevity.

About Photographer
Mizuno Katsuhiko was born in the Kamigyou ward of Kyoto city in 1941. He is a graduate of the Department of Literature, Doshisha University, and he completed a postgraduate course at the Tokyo Sogo Photography College. He has specialized in photographing the scenery of Kyoto since 1969. He has also contemplated the traditional culture of Japan, and so he has continued to come forth with works in the editorial category.

In 2000, he in augured his own photo gallery spaces, the Machiya Shashinkan or “Townhouse Photo Hall”, opening it to the public. His Landscapes for small spaces won the gold prize in the Home & Garden category of the Fore Word 2002 Book of the Year Award, sponsored by Fore World Magazine. He is a member of the Japan Photographers Association and the Japan Photographic Art Society. He has had 140 books published, the majority of which have been photo collections.

We would like to announce that “Yukata Try-out IX” will be brought to you on 1 February 2020 for all Japan lovers who would like to try wearing Yukata, Japanese summer traditional outfit. New bees to Yukata, people who have never tried wearing Yukata before will be prioritized for registration. The size of the Yukata is Japanese adult size (medium).

This time, we divide the event into two sessions so that people can join according to the availability. This time the limited participant is ten people ( 8 females and 2 males ) for one session thus we’d like to request to register if you are truly interested in the event.

We suggest you wear comfortable clothes – shirts without collar and pants not too long as you will wear Yukata upon your clothes. Do not forget to bring your ID card. Please register via Japan Foundation messenger by dropping your name, phone number and the session you want to attend. You can also bring your friends to observe and take photos. We will close the registration on Friday, 31 January 9 am.

As we will pick up the participants randomly, for those who register together with their friends in groups, we would like to inform in advance that there is no guarantee that everyone in your group will be chosen. We will contact to those who are chosen by phone in the afternoon of 13 September Friday. We would like to welcome those who do not get the phone call to next Yukata Try-out.

“Yukata Try-out IX”
Date : 1 February 2020
Tme : 10 am – 12 pm ( first session), 2 pm – 4 pm ( second session )
Venue : the Japan Foundation, Yangon No.70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township
Free admission

Great news for all Japanese film lovers!

As the very first movie screening event of 2020 new year at the Japan Foundation, Yangon, we are excited to say that “Movie Night” will be brought to you on 29 January (Wednesday night) with the screening of “Thermae Romae” which won many awards at international film festivals. The movie is about a Roman architect of spa baths who unexpectedly time travelled to modern Japan to find out the wonders of Japan bath house. The movie will be shown with English subtitles.

The movie is an adaptation of Yamazaki Mari’s popular manga, which has won both the 2010 Manga Taisho (Cartoon Grand Prize) and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Best Short Work. Another striking aspect is its large open set built at Cinecitta, Italy’s largest film studio.

(Synopsis)
Lucius is an architect of spa baths for the Roman Empire. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa that leads him to a modern Japanese bath house. Inspired by the innovations found there, he creates his own spa, Roma Thermae, bringing in the modern ideas to his time. He takes elements of Japanese culture that he learns there back with him to Rome and is hugely successful, which leads the Emperor to command him to build a massive spa.

Date: 29 January 2020
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon
With English subtitles

“The sound is the energy that can never be lost.”
Gagaku is a type of music which has been inherited for more than thousand years in Japan. Across the thousands miles of continent, across the thousand years of time, the vibrated waves of Japan in 7th century have transmitted through the time and space to reach the 21th century Myanmar.
“The music is the soul”
The Japanese soul that old for more than thousand years old have come and visit the Myanmar for first time. We would like to invite you to meet with the soul through the music.
Date: 12 January 2020
Time: 6 PM to 8 PM
Venue: Myan/Art ( G-42 Urban Asia Centre, 48th Street, Middle Block, Botataung, Yangon)
As we have limited space, please register via phone to the Japan Foundation, Yangon (01-430920/21) or fill in the following link to secure your seat.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0QwUziUTVw3xxqmEj1pSIqJeyxiFsxIX2YUbWFOGe3JI7Lw/viewform?usp=sf_link

We would like to announce that “Yukata Try-out VIII” for this new year 2020 will be brought to you on 11 January 2020 for all Japan lovers who would like to try wearing Yukata, Japanese summer traditional outfit. New bees to Yukata, people who have never tried wearing Yukata before will be prioritized for registration. The size of the Yukata is Japanese adult size (medium).

This time the limited participant is fourteen people ( 10 females and 4 males ) and we’d like to request to register if you are truly interested in the event.

We suggest you wear comfortable clothes – shirts without collar and pants not too long as you will wear Yukata upon your clothes. Do not forget to bring your ID card. Please register via Japan Foundation messenger by dropping your name and phone number. You can also bring your friends to observe and take photos. We will close the registration on Friday, 10 January 9 am.

As we will pick up the participants randomly, for those who register together with their friends in groups, we would like to inform in advance that there is no guarantee that everyone in your group will be chosen. We will contact to those who are chosen by phone in the afternoon of 10 January 2020 Friday. We would like to welcome those who do not get the phone call to next Yukata Try-out.

“Yukata Try-out VIII”
Date : 11 January 2019
Tme : 10 am – 12 pm
Number of expected people : 14 (10 females and 4 males)
Venue : The Japan Foundation, Yangon No.70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township
Free admission

Japan Classics Screening and Talk #6 @ The Japan Foundation, Yangon

HER BROTHER (Otouto) (1960 / 98min)
Director : Kon Ichikawa

Date – 12th December 2019
Time – 6:30 PM
Venue  – The Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan township, Yangon

Door open – 6:00 PM

with English Subtitles

After the screening, Aung Phyo, editor of 3-Act Film Magazine will lead the talk.

Story
Gen is 17 and only three years older than her brother, but she seems much more mature than Hekiro who is headstrong yet timid at the same time. Their father is a writer, not spectacularly successful but rather well-known in the country. He is shut up in his study all day long and most of the night. Their stepmother, a devout Christian, is a semi-invalid suffering from rheumatism.

The four members of the family are equally stubborn in their respective ways, and the friction between their father and step-mother adds to the oppressive gloominess that hangs over the home. It seems to draw Gen and Hekiro even closer together than ordinary sister and brother in normal homes, and she tries to be a little mother to him.
In spite of Gen’s anxiety over Hekiro’s unpredictable behaviors at times, the worst happens. One day when she returns from school, her stepmother tells her that he has been expelled from the Christian school she had chosen for him, for stealing. She bitterly blames the father for Hekiro’s delinquency, saying that he spoils him.

Organized by:
The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government,
The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar,
Japan Foundation, Yangon

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Saturday Yoke Shin : November special

This month, we are screening “No one to watch over me”, a thriller and drama by director Ryoichi Kimizuka who wrote and directed the “Bayside Shakedown” series. Let’s immerse ourselves in the movie dragged by the interesting plot.

[ Story ]

A deep drama depicting the fears of a modern day society, it portrays the distress of the family of a juvenile criminal and the conflicts of the detective ordered to protect them. A film by Kimizuka Ryoichi, the writer and director of “Bayside Shakedown” series. The Funamura family is the target of mass media attention after their first son commits act of murder. Furthermore, every move of detective Katsuura (Sato Koichi) takes in protecting the bewildered daughter of the family, Saori (Shida Mirai) is being fully exposed over the internet. In a deadly game of hide and seek Katsuura and Saori are eventually freed from the malicious attempts of internet addicts.